JOHN J. DUFFY of Isle La Motte is Emeritus Professor of English and
Humanities at Johnson State College. He is the author and editor of
several books and numerous articles on topics in American and
especially Vermont literary and cultural history. He was the chief
editor of Ethan Allen and His Kin: Correspondence, 1772-1819
(1998), which the Vermont Book Professionals Association named the
Best Non-Fiction Vermont book for 1998.
SAMUEL B. HAND of Burlington, Emeritus Professor of History at the
University of Vermont, was named "Dean of Vermont Historians" by
the Rutland Herald in 1999. He was the President of the Vermont
Historical Society and is the author and editor of many articles
and books on Vermont history, including Vermont Voices (1999) and
The Star that Set: The Vermont Republication Party, 1854-1974
(2002).
RALPH H. ORTH of Shelburne is Emeritus Professor of English at the
University of Vermont. He was chief editor of The Journals and
Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976-82) and The
Poetry Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978-80). He was an editor
of Ethan Allen and His Kin: Correspondence, 1772-1819 (1998).
"Anyone with an interest in the state of Vermont and its past will
welcome The Vermont Encyclopedia. There has never been a compact
reference book about Vermont at once as comprehensive and
accessible as this volume . . . Samuel B. Hand's essay on Vermont's
history is the best concise survey of the subject that I have
read."--Vermont History
"As an introduction to Vermont history and politics and
agriculture, readers would be advised to pick up The Vermont
Encyclopedia, the first such comprehensive reference work in more
than 70 years. It's an elegantly produced and written volume--more
than 1,000 entries written by 140 contributors--that covers a good
deal of ground, from agriculture to the arts to manufacturing to
town histories to such idiosyncratic personalities as Hetty Green,
the Witch of Wall Street, Champ, Lake Champlain's purported denizen
of the deep, and of course, Fred Tuttle."--Valley News
"Duffy, Hand, and Orth and 141 other contributors offer a
comprehensive, accurate, reasonably priced, readable compilation
devoted to all aspects of the most rural and one of the most
liberal states. Seventy illustrations and an easy-to-read
three-column format enhance the volume."--Choice
"The Vermont Encyclopedia, the first comprehensive history of the
state in nearly 70 years, manages to compile nearly all pertinent
facts about Vermont in a single volume. Furthermore, unbelievably,
it makes for excellent reading . . . it can be dipped into easily
by young adults, or digested by scholars."--Vermont Sunday Magazine
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